How is that more tellling? We've got an american hero in ben franklin who said that 'a penny saved is a penny earned," and many people believe in the superstition that finding a penny is good luck. Given these two things, it's not surprising or telling in the least that 76 percent of respondents would pick up a penny if they saw it on the ground.

I guess the coverage is pretty good around here because I get great battery life on my Galaxy Nexus. Full in the morning lasts until bedtime with typical usage reading emails and checking my calendar at work all day....a little RSS reading inbetween. Push enabled...

I'd love to change the world, but I'm reading 10 year old second-hand knowledge on slashdot. Really, if you're reading slashdot and didn't have this knowledge fully integrated into your consciousness...head on over to digg.

"On the Nexus One, only 190 megabytes of its total 4.5 gigabytes of memory is allowed for storing apps. On the $199 iPhone, nearly all of the 16 gigabytes of memory can be used for apps." It's a bit disheartening to see garbage FUD like this make its way into a slashdot summary. It's been known for quite some time that the Android OS allow developers to store app resources on the SD card. A number of Android apps do this, already. An official update to make it easier for developers to do what they're already doing is in the works.

Lucky for you, Mossberg is dead wrong about the 'only 190mb for apps' piece of info. Only the minimal binary requirements are restricted to the apk that must be stored in the 190mb of space. Other app resources like images, videos, music, what have you.... All of those can be stored outside the 190mb. Pure FUD.

No GSM on the verizon version... It's likely they had the CDMA-only version primed and ready for release until Verizon balked at the idea of google selling the phone themselves. It was originally supposed to come out in December. http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166507

Thanks for clearing that up... I thought I might be wrong.

Actually, I don't think this is entirely correct. Phones in europe are quite often only available on specific carriers. The hardware is designed to work with 3g networks on specific wireless bands, and I don't think every carrier runs the same stuff. Your networks are most definitely more standardized and free than ours are, but it's still a problem. As for the droid... Yep, right now it is only available as a CDMA phone...and Verizon's pretty much got a lock on it. The GSM version just passed through the FCC a few weeks ago. Tragically, it'll probably end up over in europe only...

To me, this is a shameful topic for Linux... There may be others, but this is the only one that bothers me. It's truly the only reason I haven't made at least a 90% switch to linux as a desktop...with windows basically acting as a game console on another partition.